Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S 45753, John Farrier, Continental Mass.

SERVICE
NUMBER
Continental Mass.
Farrier John Farrier
S 45753
CONTENTS

5405  New Hampshire
John Gannier private Capt Wood
Massachusetts line in the army of the United States during the Revolutionary War.
scribed on the Roll of New Hampshire at the rate of 8 Dollars per month, to commence on the 13 of April 1818
ertificate of Pension issued the 18 of January 1818 and sent to Levi Woodbury Esq Pittsborough N. H.
arrears to 4th of Sept. 1818 $ 37.86 semi-annual all'ce ending 4 March 1819 48. $ 85.86
{ Revolutionary claim, } { Act 18th March, 1818. }
one year
Pittsborough
Pittsborough
Supplement Certificate issued 30 March 1819, and sent to Hugh Price Esq. one of the select men of the town of Pittsborough N. H. Recd June 11. 1827 Agency book

N. H.
John Lannien (Petersons)
April 1911
Admitted

I, John Larnier of Peterborough in the County of Hills- borough and State of New Hampshire , and formerly of Reading (Mass.), Condwainer, depose, That in May A. D. 1775 I enlisted as a Private Soldier into Capt. Spague's company in Col. D. Baldwin's Regiment in the Massachusetts line; and there remained till the last day of December; when in January, reenlisting into Capt. Woods company in the same Regiment I continued engaged there against the common enemy till January A. D. 1777 one year longer - & at the end thereof was discharged - but have no certificate thereof —
I further depose, That I never received any Pension from the United States. That I am now fifty nine years old: have a family: possess but very little property; and from my reduced circumstances need assistance from my country for subsistence.
A. D. 1818
John Larnier

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. - April 13, 1810.
I hereby certify that the within John Farnier this day personally appeared & made oath to the truth of the within declaration by him subscribed before me: And that said declaration hath satisfied me that the said John Farnier  Doyle served against the common enemy in the Revolutionary War as a Private Soldier in the Massachusetts Line in the Continental Service longer than nine months at one, revised and that from his reduced circumstances he needs assistance in his old age for support -
Seni Woodbury At. Sec. Sup. Ct. (N. H.)

copy of John Garcia
5405
1916 L.A.
man and

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
HILLSBOROUGH, SS.
Court of Sessions At a special Court of Common Pleas for the first district , now holden at Concord in said county, on this Thirteenth day of February 182 0 , being a court of record; having power of fine and imprisonment, and unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount.
Present { Joshua Darling } Chief Justice. { J. H. Smith } { Jacob Tuttle } Justices. { Abel Wilson } { Joseph Philbrick }
Personally appeared, in open court, John Farrier aged 63 years, resident in Peterborough in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit:— he enlisted on the first day of January 1776 in Capt John Wood's Company in Col. Col. Baldwin's Regiment in the Massachusetts line and served one year and was honorably discharged at Trenton New Jersey the date of my original declaration was on the 13th day of April 1818 I have received a pension: The certificate of which is numbered 5,405
And I do solemnly that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;" and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the schedule hereto annexed and by me subscribed.
My occupation is Shoemaker but cannot labour much
My family, residing with me, consists of a Wife aged sixty years unable and cannot at all & one Daughter Eleanor aged thirty six years whom I have supported from her youth up to the time on account of sickness She is not able to contribute in the least towards her own support, one son aged 24 years in health  The little property owned an a farm schedule The little is taken to pay my debts
John Farrier
Sworn to and declared in open court, on the Thirteenth day of February in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty, and of the Independence of the United States the 44th .
I Enoch Darling Clerk of the above named Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited, in the foregoing schedule, is nothing
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this Thirteenth day of February 182 0 .
E. Darling Clerk of the Court for the County of Hillsborough, of course

Copy A 7672
John Farrier
5405
5405. Belubanga
2062 yr
Small house 25 years old val 1875.
valued at 1875: 137 75
eye light in paid, & a pension on the same.
John Farrier
John Farrier
one year - 1796 -
✓

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE.
HILLSBOROUGH, SS.
At a Court of Common Pleas for the first district, holden at Annhust in said county of Hillsborough, on this 4th day of July, 1820, being a court of record; having power of fine and imprisonment, and unlimited Jurisdiction in point of amount.
PRESENT
The Hon. { JOSHUA DARLING, } Justices. JEDIDIAH K. SMITH,
Personally appeared, in open court, John Farmer aged 62 years, resident in Peterborough in said county, who being first duly sworn, according to law, doth on his oath declare, that he served in the revolutionary war as follows, to wit: — I enlisted January 1 st 1776 for one year in Capt. Woods' company. Col. Baldwin's Regiment in the Massachusetts line, and served the year out and was discharged at Princeton New Jersey January 1777.
the date of my original declaration was on the 13th day of April Anno Domini, 1818 I have received a pension, the certificate of which is numbered 5405 on the back thereof.
And I do solemnly swear that I was a resident citizen of the United States on the 18th day of March 1818, and that I have not since that time, by gift, sale, or in any manner disposed of my property, or any part thereof, with intent thereby so to diminish it, as to bring myself within the provisions of the act of Congress entitled "an act to provide for certain persons engaged in the land or naval service of the United States in the Revolutionary War, passed on the 18th day of March, 1818;" and that I have not, nor has any person in trust for me, any property or securities, contracts or debts, due to me; nor have I any income, other than what is contained in the following schedule, by me subscribed.
  a small house and five acres of land in Peterborough valued at $125.00   two tables, ten chairs, old 3.00   one case drawers old 2.50   two old wheels 2.00   a lot of iron ware 2.25   broomery and glass ware 2.00   Looking Glass .25   Shoemakers tools 1.50   $137.75 
John Farmer The above land I have finished with the pension money which I have already received

My occupation is that of a shoe maker but from failure of eye sight I have been obliged to abandon it almost entirely and I have a cancer on the nose. My family, residing with me, consists of a wife & two children. Elmer aged 35 years - sick and unable to support himself At mass aged 16 years John Ganim
Sworn to and declared in open court, on the Anno Domini, 1820.
4 th
day of July
M Eastman Clerk
I MOSES EASTMAN, Clerk of the above named Court, do hereby certify, that the foregoing declaration and oath and the schedule thereto annexed, are truly copied from the record of the said Court; and I do further certify, that it is the opinion of the said court, that the total amount in value of the property exhibited, in the foregoing schedule, is
One hundred and thirtyseven dollars and seventy five cents -
In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the said court, on this
fourth
day of July 1820.
M Eastman
Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Hillsborough.

45753 Rev INVALID. (over)
File No. 45753
John Farrier Pte Rev War
Act: 18 March 1818
Index:—Vol. 3, Page 166
[Arrangement of 1870.]

John Samson

United States
of America.
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Suffolk, ss. } Boston. }
ON this twelfth Day of October
in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and eighteen , before me, SAMUEL JACKSON PRESCOTT, Esquire, Notary Pub- lic, by Legal Authority duly admitted and sworn, and dwelling in Boston, aforesaid, and a Justice of the Peace, and of the Quorum, within and for the said County of Suffolk, personally appeared  Silvanus Wood of
Woburn, in the County of Middlesex and Commonwealth of Massachusetts aforesaid, Gentleman, and formerly a Lieute- nant in the war of the revolution, and in the years 1776 and 1777 an Ensign in the said war of the revolution, in the Company commanded by Captain John Wood, in the Regiment of which Loammi Baldwin was Colonel, in the Massachusetts Line; and at the same time came also and personally appeared Daniel Smith of Cambridge, in the County of Middlesex aforesaid, Gentleman, who was a pri- vate soldier in said Captain John Wood's said Company and in the same Regiment commanded by the said Colonel Loammi Baldwin, in said Massachusetts Line, and of her being duly cautioned & sworn severally made solemn oath that they are well acquainted with John Farnier of Peterborough, in the County of Hillsborough, in the State of New Hampshire, now present, and that it is a fact within their own knowledge that he, the said John Farnier was a continental soldier in the said Captain John Woods

Woods' said Company, in the said Regiment in the Massachusetts Line, of which the said Loammi Baldwin was Colonel, and that they, the said Deponents, both and each of them, to wit, the said Silvanus Wood, as an Ensign, and the said Daniel Smith, as a private Soldier, served in the said Capt. John Woods' said company, in the said Colonel Baldwin's regiment, as aforesaid, against the common enemy one full year , without intermission or absence, and that he, the said John Farrier was during the the whole of said term of one full year, to wit, from sometime in  about January A.D. 1776 to sometime in the month of January A.D. 1777 a private Soldier in said Capt. John Woods' said Company, and present and acting against the common, as a good and faithful soldier, without intermission or absence, during the whole of said term as aforesaid, and also that the Company & Regiment were on the Continental establishment, and that all the Officers of said Company & Regiment were continental Officers, and also that the said John Farrier during the whole of said term of one year sustained the character of a good soldier, as aforesaid - and the said Deponents also severally made solemn oath that they have no doubt, but verily believe that said John Farrier by reason of his reduced circumstances in life needs assistance from his County for support - and further that they, the said Deponents, are altogether disinterested witnesses - The said Deponents also made solemn oath that at the expiration of said one year, as aforesaid, the said John Farrier was honourably discharged from the said Continental service, although according to their present institution

recollection, no individual soldier of the aforesaid Company & Regiment received a written discharge. In Will testimony whereof, both and each of the said Deponents have hereunto subscribed their names in my presence, and have been duly and severally sworn to the truth of the premises, by oath solemnly taken before me, the said Notary & Justice: — Silvanus Wood
David Smith
In witness whereof, and for making these presents of full force and effect and as the said Deponents are well known to me, said Notary and Justice, and are not only disinterested wit- nesses, but also men of good name & fair reputation, & entitled to full faith & credit as witnesses both out of court, I, the said Notary and Justice, do hereby declare the same to be a Public Act, and that full faith and credit ought to be given thereto, and in testimony thereof, I have not only hereunto subscribed my name, but have also affixed my Seal of Office, the day and year first within and aforesaid.
J. S. Prescott , Notary Public & Justice of the Peace & Quorum.

State of New-Hampshire.
To All whom it may Concern.
KNOW YE, THAT
James Walker, Joshua Darling and Samuel Morril, whose official certificates are borne on the papers hereunto annexed, were at the date of their respective certificates, Justices of the Peace, to wit, the said Walker for the County of Hillsborough, and the said Darling and Morril for the County of Merrimack
in said STATE, duly constituted and sworn, and that to their Acts and Attestations, as such, full Faith and Credit are and ought to be given, in and out of Court, within and out of the STATE.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto affixed the SEAL of the STATE, at Concord, this Sixth day of March in the year of our LORD one thousand eight hundred and twenty Seven and in the fifty First year of the Independence of the United States of America.
Richard Bartlett
Secretary of State.

State of New Hampshire
Merrimack ss. I, Joseph C. West of Concord in the State and County aforesaid Testify that I paid John Harris a Revolutionary Pension of the United States his Pension money due him from September 4 th 1825 to 4 th March 1826 and delivered the money to James Taylor Stage Driver and that this payment was made after I had been to Portsmouth after Pension money and that the Certificate & Power was sent to Portsmouth by the Stage Driver from Concord to Portsmouth & that I have never seen the Certificate since — and suppose that the Certificate was lost by the Stage Driver and that I have since been at the Pension Office in Portsmouth and can find nothing of the said Certificate and there is no doubt but the Certificate is lost
Concord March 6 1827
Joseph C. West
Merrimack ss. State New Hampshire — Personally appeared March 6 th 1827 Joseph C. West and made oath that the above affidavit by him subscribed was true — Before Samuel Morrill, Jus. Peace —

I hereby certify that Joseph C. West is a credible witness,
Samuel Morris, Jr. Squire —

I David S. Cogswell of Haverhill testify and say, that sometime about the middle of March 1826, at the request of Enoch Darling Esq. which I was clerk in his store - gave James Taylor Esq. Devoir John Farnie's Pension Certificate, together with his Power of Attorney for his Semiannual draft from Sept. 4 th 1825 - to the 4 th March 1826. to pay to Mr. Joseph C. West boned to obtain the money for said Darling who had advanced the same a few days before to said John Farnie, said Taylor carried the paper aforesaid as he said to said J. C. West and brought the money back, due on said Pension Certificate, I think I sent own by said Taylor for said Farnie's Certificate but it was never returned by said Taylor or any other person to me.
Sometime in September 1826. Mr. David Pratt came to Enoch Darling, aforesaid to get Mr. Farnie's Certificate as said Farnie was sick & could not come himself - Mr. Darling said the Certificate was at Concord at Mr. West's and he hired me to go after it - I called upon Mr. Joseph C. West for said Farnie's Pension Certificate to show me his draft although not his on the Hospital which he had made annually of his having paid over to Enoch Darling John Farnie's Pension draft aforesaid no minute was made of his the said West having delivered said Certificate to any person aforesaid.
March 5. 1827
David S. Cogswell Sworn and subscribed, this 5 th day of March 1827
Before me Joshua Darling Justice of the Peace

I hereby certify that Mr. David L. Cogswell the aforesaid Deponent, is a man of truth and veracity - & entitled to the fullest credence
March 5, 1827
Attest Joshua Darling Clerk of the Peace.

Application for a New Certificate
State of Massachusetts
County of Middlesex ss. On this Third day of March 1827 before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for the said County of Middlesex personally appeared John Farniss of Peterborough in said County who on his oath declares that he is the same person who formerly belonged to the company commanded by Capt. John Wood in the Regiment commanded by Col. Leominster Baldwin in the Massachusetts line in the service of the United States - That his name was placed on the pension roll of the State of Massachusetts - That he received a certificate of that fact under the signature and seal of the Secretary of War - which certificate in the month of March 1826. at Farnsworth in the County of Merrimack in said State was left by him the disposal in the hands of Enock Darling Esq. of said Farnsworth for the purpose of enabling him said Darling as the agent of the Department to procure the deponent's pension due the fourth of March last - That the deponent has never seen said certificate since and is informed by said Darling that said certificate was placed by him in the hands of Joseph C. West and that said West informs him he has lost the same - That in consequence of the loss of said certificate the deponent has not been able to procure his pension due the fourth of September last
John C. Farnsworth Sworn and subscribed to before me the day and year aforesaid James Walker Jus: Peace

State of New Hampshire Hillsborough ss. On the third day of March 1827 personally came before me the subscriber a justice of the Peace for said county of Hillsborough Daniel Pratt of Greenfield in said county who on his oath declares that he is well acquainted with John Farris of Peterborough in said county the deponent in the foregoing affidavit - that he knows the said Farris to be the same person described in said affidavit, that he is a pensioner of the United States, has held a certificate as such as stated in the foregoing affidavit - and has drawn his pension previous to the fourth of September last. Daniel Pratt Sworn, and subscribed to, before me the day and year aforesaid. James Walker Jus: Peace
Hillsborough ss March 3 rd 1827 I certify that Daniel Pratt the deponent in the foregoing affidavit is a person of truth and integrity James Walker Jus: Peace

I (Enoch Loring Esquire of the Henniker in the County of Merrimack and State of New Hampshire, testify and say that I have been engaged as the Agent for John Farnie, Prisoner of Peterborough, County of Hillsborough & State of New Hampshire and since he obtained his Pension Certificate and have held his Certificate in my hands until March A.D. 1826 when I sent it by Stagerman to Joseph L. Wood of Concord to obtain said John Farnie's draft from Sept. 4th 1825 to the 10th of March 1826 which draft said Wood sent me back by the Stagerman, but kept the Certificate to send to Portsmouth to obtain the money due at the office requested to return said Certificate. has never done it, but am sure that it is lost and I have no doubt that the fact - I have never seen it since March 10, 1827. Enoch Loring Sworn & Subscribed this tenth day of March A.D. 1827 Before me
Joshua Loring Justice of the Peace March 10 1827 I hereby certify that the above named Deposition is a true & correct copy of the original Joshua Loring Justice of the Peace

Free
Peterboro N.H. Mch 24
Pension Office
William H.
Colonel Quartermaster
2d Cavalry
Enclosing
Correspondence
for the Hon. James Barbour Secretary of War
Washington City

Peterborough N.H. March the 20 th 1827
My Dear Sir you will perceive by the inclosed affidavits that John Gavier of said Peterboro a revolutionary Soldier whose name was on the pension list & held a certificate to that effect through the mismanagement of the persons whom he employed to obtain his pension money has lost his certificate in consequence of which he has not been able to obtain his two semiannual payments due to him from the 4 day of March 1826 to the 4 th of March 1827 this circumstance together with his being in a very distressed situation with a cancer on his face & at the point of expiring has compelled the poor old soldier to make application to this Town for relief he is extremely anxious to obtain a new certificate as the thought of being a pauper is very disagreeable to his feelings. Of the affidavits here inclosed are properly authenticated & the proof sufficient to authorize Government to grant a new certificate I wish you sir to review & enclose said certificate to be directed to the Selectmen of Peterborough
I am sir very respectfully yours &c
Hon James Barbour Secretary of war
Hugh Miller
One of the Selectmen of Peterborough